Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa: Markets, Soil, and Innovations

Takashi Yamano, Keijiro Otsuka, Frank Place, "Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa: Markets, Soil, and Innovations"
Sp.....r | 2011-05-06 | ISBN: 9400712006 | 232 pages | PDF | 3 MB

Based on a coordinated panel study of more than 2,400 households in three countries—Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia—this book provides unprecedented insight into how agricultural productivity can be improved. Its vast coverage of over 240 different communities offers a wide variety of policy, market and agro-climatic contexts, thus enabling more certain conclusions to be drawn about which strategies are more probably universal or context-specific. Emerging Development of Agriculture in East Africa offers case studies that find promise in many new innovations. Farmers in Uganda have quickly learned the management of NERICA rice (a new upland rice variety), which is being disseminated in a limited way in the region. Also in Uganda, farmers living in more remote areas have improved access to markets due to the expansion of mobile phones. In Kenya, improved milk marketing systems have increased efficiency and led to tangible increases in the adoption of dairy production technologies. And the adoption of intensive dairy production systems in Kenya and Uganda are providing significant amounts of manure and positively impacting yields of maize and banana. Despite the success of these innovations, many of their impacts are limited in terms of depth (size of impact per household) and breadth (number of households). Therefore, each chapter details key constraints to improved impact and the potential policy strategies to overcome them. Many recommendations concern the improvement of markets, which is imperative to increasing agricultural productivity and reducing poverty. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of technology to induce institutional and market change, as was evident in Asia’s Green Revolution. Altogether, the studies in the book suggest that, in addition to improving markets and the output / input price ratio, it is essential to improve technology (e.g. varieties or water management) so that fertilizer and other inputs can earn a higher return.

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Global Business, 2nd Edition

Mike W. Peng, "Global Business, 2nd Edition"
So..h-We...rn Co...ge P.. | 2010-06-29 | ISBN: 1439042241 | 656 pages | PDF | 32 MB

Introduce students to success in global business today with strategic approach and unique coverage found in GLOBAL BUSINESS, 2E. Written by renowned international instructor, author, and consultant Mike Peng, GLOBAL BUSINESS is the first truly global global business book to answer the big question, "What determines the success and failure of firms around the globe?" This edition blends both an institutional-based view and resource-based view throughout every chapter for an unparalleled continuity in the learning process. The book combines an inviting, conversational style with the latest research and examples throughout every chapter, including the impact of the 2008-2009 global economic crisis. A comprehensive set of cases from Mike Peng and other respected international experts examine how companies throughout the world, including Brazil's Embraer, China's Hauwei, and India's Tata Motors, have expanded globally. All-new video cases, world maps, and unique global debate sections that draw students into cutting-edge discussions help readers view business challenges from a truly global perspective. GLOBAL BUSINESS, 2E's comprehensive package, including the CengageNOW course management system, helps you teach students to become savvy, effective managers within today's global business landscape.

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"I find readability, accessibility, and writing style superb." - Attila Yaprak, Wayne State University

"Wonderfully written! Good examples, style, easily explained!" - George DeFeis, Monroe College

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Fundamentals of Case Management Practice: Skills for the Human Services, 4th Edition

Nancy Summers, "Fundamentals of Case Management Practice: Skills for the Human Services, 4th Edition"
Bro..s C..e | 2011-04-14 | ISBN: 0840033699 | 496 pages | PDF | 4,1 MB

This text/workbook is a step-by-step guide through the case management process, from intake and assessment to referrals and termination. The 4th edition focuses on what is most important for you to consider, document, and pass along in each step of the human services process. Chapters walk through each step of the case management process, while realistic exercises drawn from active professionals expose true-to-life circumstances and difficulties.

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Introductory Econometrics for Finance (2nd edition) [Repost]

Chris Brooks - Introductory Econometrics for Finance (2nd edition)
Publisher: Cаmbridge Univеrsity Prеss | 2008-05-22 | ISBN: 0521873061, 052169468X | PDF | 672 pages | 5.76 MB

This best-selling textbook addresses the need for an introduction to econometrics specifically written for finance students. Key features: • Thoroughly revised and updated, including two new chapters on panel data and limited dependent variable models • Problem-solving approach assumes no prior knowledge of econometrics emphasising intuition rather than formulae, giving students the skills and confidence to estimate and interpret models • Detailed examples and case studies from finance show students how techniques are applied in real research • Sample instructions and output from the popular computer package EViews enable students to implement models themselves and understand how to interpret results • Gives advice on planning and executing a project in empirical finance, preparing students for using econometrics in practice • Covers important modern topics such as time-series forecasting, volatility modelling, switching models and simulation methods • Thoroughly class-tested in leading finance schools. Bundle with EViews student version 6 available.

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Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area: A Study by the Eurosystem Monetary Transmission Network [Repost]

Ignazio Angeloni, A. K. Kashyap, Benoît Mojon - Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area: A Study by the Eurosystem Monetary Transmission Network
Publisher: Cаmbridge Univеrsity Prеss | 2004-01-12 | ISBN: 0521828643 | PDF | 516 pages | 2.49 MB

This book offers the most systematic analysis available of the impact of European Central Bank monetary policy on the national economies of the Eurozone. There has been a large increase in research into better understanding how changes in monetary policy affect these economies since Central Banks have become accountable for meeting specific targets in inflation, output and employment. The research to date has largely focused on national central banks, pioneered by the study of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank and the impacts of its policy decisions on the U.S. economy.

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Black Tie Optional: A Complete Special Events Resource for Nonprofit Organizations

Harry A. Freedman, "Black Tie Optional: A Complete Special Events Resource for Nonprofit Organizations"
Wiley; 2 edition | English | 2007-02-02 | ISBN: 0471703338 | 242 pages | PDF | 1.5 mb

Regardless of the kind of big event your organization has planned for its next fundraiser, everything you need to know and do is in this thorough and essential handbook. Now in a Second Edition, Black Tie Optional demystifies the process and makes it as easy as possible to have a successful event that generates money as well as new supporters.

Authors and industry experts Harry Freedman and Karen Feldman cover all the angles and show you how to:
- Decide on the best kind of event for your organization
- Select the best location and date for your event
- Develop budgets
- Reach and book celebrities
- Create invitations and get publicity
- Set ticket prices
- Organize and motivate your committees

This handy, how-to manual takes you step by step through the entire process of selecting and producing simple and complicated events and arms you with all the information you need, including practical advice, real-world examples from actual events, summary checklists, and worksheets. Black Tie Optional is destined to become your dog-eared blueprint for making money and allies in the name of your cause.

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Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics (Repost)

Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics
Language: English | Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann | ISBN: 0123704774 | 2007 | PDF | 432 pages | 17 mb

Bayesian Networks are a form of probabilistic graphical models and they are used for modeling knowledge in many application areas, from medicine to image processing. They are particularly useful for business applications, ans

* Unique coverage of probabilistic reasoning topics applied to business problems, including marketing, banking, operations management, and finance.
* Shares insights about when and why probabilistic methods can and cannot be used effectively;
* Complete review of Bayesian networks and probabilistic methods for those IT professionals new to informatics.

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The MiFID Revolution (repost)

Jean-Pierre Casey, Karel Lannoo, "The MiFID Revolution"
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS | ISBN: 0521518636 | edition 2009 | PDF | 240 pages | 11.7 mb

The Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) is nothing short of a revolution. Introduced on 1 November 2007, it will have a profound, long-term impact on Europe's securities markets. It will see banks operating as exchanges for certain activities, offering alternative execution services that more closely resemble the structure of over-the-counter markets, and will lead to the decentralisation of order execution in an array of venues previously governed by concentration rules.

Crucially, MiFID will also have a profound impact on the organisation and business strategies of investment firms, exchanges, asset managers and other financial markets intermediaries. Until now, analysis has focused on the directive's short term implementation issues. This book focuses on the long term strategic implications associated with MiFID, and will be essential reading for anybody who recognises that their firm will need to make constant dynamic readjustments in order to remain competitive in this challenging new environment.

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Measuring Market Risk by Kevin Dowd (Repost)

Measuring Market Risk by Kevin Dowd (Repost)
Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (October 15, 2002) | ISBN: 0471521744 | Pages: 392 | PDF | 1.74 MB

Financial professionals in both the front and back office require an understanding of market risk and how to manage it. Measuring Market Risk provides this understanding with an overview of the most recent innovations in Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Tail Loss (ETL) estimation. This book is filled with clear and accessible explanations of complex issues that arise in risk measuring-from parametric versus nonparametric estimation to incre-mental and component risks. Measuring Market Risk also includes accompanying software written in Matlab(r)-allowing the reader to simulate and run the examples in the book.

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Measurement and Meaning

Estanislao Gacitúa-Marió, Quentin Wodon - Measurement and Meaning: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for the Analysis of Poverty and Social Exclusion in Latin America
Publisher: Wоrld Bаnk Publicаtions | 2001-12-01 | ISBN: 0821350544 | PDF | 96 pages | 7.90 MB

Over the past decade, the World Bank has evolved its analysis and reporting on poverty to a multi-dimensional view which includes issues of social disadvantage, vulnerability, and powerlessness. This broader construct, which considers the concepts of social exclusion and social capital, suggests the need for a greater degree of qualitative research. Qualitative research has proved particularly valuable in identifying social issues while improving the accuracy of quantitative research. This report presents three case studies drawn from World Bank work in Latin America. Each of these studies—one each from Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay—illustrates the gains that can be derived from combining the use of quantitative and qualitative research methods.

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Quintessenz des strategischen Managements (Repost)

Nils Bickhoff, "Quintessenz des strategischen Managements: Was Sie wirklich wissen müssen, um im Wettbewerb zu überleben"
Publisher: Springer | ISBN: 3540793712 | edition 2009 | PDF | 143 pages | 1,4 mb

Strategische Entscheidungen sind weit reichend und müssen komplexe und dynamische Umfelder berücksichtigen. Nur wer eine individuelle Strategie entwickelt, kann im Wettbewerb überleben – Lösungen von der Stange gibt es nicht. Doch was genau macht eine gute „Strategie" aus? Welche Instrumente sind wirklich praxistauglich? Anschaulich und unterhaltsam beschreibt Nils Bickhoff die Quintessenz des strategischen Managements. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen und Beispielen ist dieses Buch eine konkrete Entscheidungs- und Umsetzungshilfe für Anwender.

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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Jon Perkins, "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publ | 2004 | ISBN: 1576753018 | English | PDF | 277 pages | 1.37 Mb

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man reveals a game that, according to John Perkins, is "as old as Empire" but has taken on new and terrifying dimensions in an era of globalization. And Perkins should know. For many years he worked for an international consulting firm where his main job was to convince LDCs (less developed countries) around the world to accept multibillion-dollar loans for infrastructure projects and to see to it that most of this money ended up at Halliburton, Bechtel, Brown and Root, and other United States engineering and construction companies. This book, which many people warned Perkins not to write, is a blistering attack on a little-known phenomenon that has had dire consequences on both the victimized countries and the U.S. John Perkins describes himself as a former economic hit man. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man he describes how as a highly paid professional, he helped the U.S. cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies. Amazon.com John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. "Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Think John Le Carré, except it's a true story. Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn't afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn't do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its "empire" at the expense of Third World citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies, perhaps that's not surprising considering the life he's led. --Alex Roslin german: Economic Hit Men (EHM) sind hochbezahlte Profis, die Länder auf der ganzen Welt um Billionen von Dollars betrügen. Sie schleusen Geld von der Weltbank, der U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) und anderen auswärtigen "Hilfs"-Organisationen in die Koffer von riesigen Unternehmungen und die Taschen einiger weniger reicher Familien, die die natürlichen Ressourcen unseres Planeten kontrollieren. russian: Книга Дж. Перкинса - первый в мире автобиографический рассказ о жизни, подготовке и методах деятельности особой сверхзасекреченной группы "экономических убийц" - профессионалов высочайшего уровня, призванных работать с высшими политическими и экономическими лидерами интересующих США стран мира.

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The International Organization of Credit: States and Global Finance in the World-Economy

Randall D. Germain - The International Organization of Credit: States and Global Finance in the World-Economy
Publisher: Cаmbridge Univеrsity Prеss | 1997-10-13 | ISBN: 0521591422 | CHM | 222 pages | 1.06 MB

In this book Randall Germain explores the changing political economy of finance at the global level. He relates changes in global finance to wider changes in the organization of the international economy, and considers how commercial and investment banks have responded institutionally to these changes. Changes in the institutional organization of credit have rendered traditional policy instruments for controlling credit less useful today than in the past. Germain thus argues that the international organization of credit is likely to relatively unstable into the twenty-first century, and that the role of states within the global credit system will be precarious.

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Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry

Edna Bonacich, "Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry"
University of California Press; 1 edition | English | 2000-06-28 | ISBN: 0520225066 | 414 pages | PDF | 3.5 mb

In a study crucial to our understanding of American social inequality, Edna Bonacich and Richard Appelbaum investigate the return of sweatshops to the apparel industry, especially in Los Angeles. The "new" sweatshops, they say, need to be understood in terms of the decline in the American welfare state and its strong unions and the rise in global and flexible production. Apparel manufacturers now have the incentive to move production to wherever low-wage labor can be found, while maintaining arm's-length contractual relations that protect them from responsibility. The flight of the industry has led to a huge rise in apparel imports to the United States and to a decline in employment.

Los Angeles, however, remains a puzzling exception in that its industry employment has continued to grow, to the point where L.A. is the largest center of apparel production in the nation. Not only the availability of low-wage immigrant (often undocumented) workers but also the focus on moderately priced, fashion-sensitive women's wear makes this possible. Behind the Label examines the players in the L.A. apparel industry, including manufacturers, retailers, contractors, and workers, evaluating the maldistribution of wealth and power. The authors explore government and union efforts to eradicate sweatshops while limiting the flight to Mexico and elsewhere, and they conclude with a description of the growing antisweatshop movement.

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